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YouTube Premiere: Blockchains, Fact and Fiction - a legal perspective
What is a Blockchain? What are the benefits and risks of Cryptocurrency? Why should we be reconsidering the perception of what our personal data actually is?
Credit The Open University Law School0xcert
Your ID, degree, artwork or house. 0xcert-ified on the blockchain. Create, own, and validate unique assets on the blockchain. 0xcert is the first open protocol built to support the future of digital assets, powered by the non-fungible tokens.
Credit 0xcertBuilding the First Blockchain University
Woolf will be the first fully accredited, borderless, blockchain-powered university. Woolf University will use blockchain technology to enforce regulatory compliance, eliminate or automate bureaucratic university processes, and manage the custodianship of sensitive financial and personal data.
Credit Woolf UniversityOxford academics launch world’s first ‘blockchain university’
A group of University of Oxford academics have launched the world’s first “blockchain university”, an Oxbridge-style institution that they describe as “Uber for students, Airbnb for academics”.
Credit The Times Higher EducationEU Blockchain Observatory & Forum
The Blockchain Observatory and Forum will highlight key developments of the blockchain technology, promote European actors and reinforce European engagement with multiple stakeholders involved in blockchain activities.
Credit EU Blockchain - An initiative of the European CommissionBlockchain in Education
This report introduces the fundamental principles of the Blockchain focusing on its potential for the education sector. It explains how this technology may both disrupt institutional norms and empower learners. It proposes eight scenarios for the application of the Blockchain in an education context, based on the current state of technology development and deployment.
Credit Joint Research Centre (JRC)Learning on the Block: Could Smart Transactional Models Help Power Personalized Learning?
Alongside a cultural shift toward openness and transparency, two emerging technologies – blockchain and smart contracts – have the potential to impact learning dramatically.
Credit KnowledgeWorksWhat we learned from designing an academic certificates system on the blockchain
Over the past year, we have been working on a set of tools to issue, display, and verify digital credentials using the Bitcoin blockchain and the open badges specification.
Credit MediumKottackal
Kottackal Business Solution Pvt. Ltd. is a multi-disciplinary product design studio working at the intersection of art and technology.
Credit Kottackal Business SolutionsUber-U is Already Here
Sounds implausible? Not at all. Uber-U is already here, if not yet in name, in practice. It relies on a small number of technologies.
Credit teachonline.caBadgeChain
Posts, news, & notes as we iterate on open badges & blockchain technologies
Credit MediumOwn Your Achievements: Three Ways Blockchain Tech is Disrupting Education
Last week, more than 2000 people played IFTF’s most recent Foresight Engine game, Learning Is Earning 2026, following a keynote by game designer Jane McGonigal at SXSWedu.
Credit Blockchain Futures Lab BlogBlockchain Futures Lab
Over the past decade, an alternative digital paradigm has slowly been taking shape at the edges of the internet. This new paradigm is the blockchain. After incubating through millions of Bitcoin transactions and a host of developer projects, it is now on the tips of tongues of CEOs and CTOs, startup entrepreneurs, and even governance activists.
Credit Institute for the Future (IFTF)Learning is Earning 2026
Until recently, we thought of learning, earning, and living as separate experiences. We went to school when were young. We spent our adult years working, and we squeezed our personal lives into whatever brief windows of time were left.
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